WE are not harrasing the messenger.
Everyone has the right to voice their opinions on these boards.
However, what no-one has the right to do is abuse, insult or put down people that work long hours, in their own time to make this THE most successful BOINC project there is
If you don't understand why the project is unstable at the moment, or don't understand why there is frequent downtime then please ask. There are plenty of people around that will answer questions about what is going on at the moment.

Please do not insult the people that have dedicated a lot of their lives to making this project what it is as that will just annoy people spend a lot of time and effort on this project
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I did some investigation in to the SETI code to see what the WU kidnapper's wants are and soon discovered their shocking demand. "All your cats are belong to us," a clever modification of "All your base are belong to us."

You see, they meow have access to all SETI cat pictured profiles--- including yours. This means all feline pictured must deliver shown fur balls to the Berkeley SETI server room by 12 midnight tonight or the results will be catastrophic!! Seeing to how many "Puss in Boots" pics there are on these damn threads, I'm assuming we will lose half of our members.

"Insert sophisticated reply hee."

Keep crunchin'

BDDave

Oh No, did my dog become a cat? Figures ET would be behind it.
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Official Abuser of Boinc Buttons...
And no good credit hound!

Frankly, and kindly, I do wish that someone at Berkeley would post something short and informative on a daily basis. No blogs, or treatises. Just a simple communication on a more or less daily basis. It would help us all, and help beat back the rioters when rioting commences.

<---close to Berkely ( location) Update... Volunteers are still using computing power to search for Little Green Men. Their work is GREATLY appreciated. Financial restraints sometimes stop us from being perfect, in everyones eyes, but the battle goes on in search of knowledge.

Be well, search for the truth.
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"It is better to be hated for what you are then to be loved for what you are not"
- Andre Gide (1869-1951)

Frankly, and kindly, I do wish that someone at Berkeley would post something short and informative on a daily basis. No blogs, or treatises. Just a simple communication on a more or less daily basis. It would help us all, and help beat back the rioters when rioting commences.

I totally agree
Its very arrogant to leave those of us Volunteers in the dark
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Eric etc. aren't, they are paid staff. When they aren't being paid, they don't work. What is the problem with this concept?

I think you will find that Eric and the others at Seti, do one hell of a sight more than their salaries require of them.

Its very arrogant to leave those of us Volunteers in the dark

That is not true and never has been. They have always done the best they can with limited resources. They can't afford a PR man. Matt played a blinder but wanted a break. Fair enough, in the meantime we should keep our loyalty.
____________Those of you who think you know everything are annoying those of us that actually do!

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I'd rather the crew at SETI deal with the problems, fix them as quick as they can, then worry about letting us know what the problem was. We all know there's a problem, there's nothing WE as volunteer's can do about it, other than DONATE to the cause. I've donated in the past, and if I didn't have so many damn bills, I'd donate again. I'd love to hit the lottery, and send half of it to the crew @ SETI to let them get top of the line stuff, and minimize the outages.

This project is the poster child of distributed computing. They run on a shoe string budget. They were not expected to stay up this long, but they are doing it. These guys also have lives outside of this project. These guys are some of the most professional people I know. Just because they don't answer every question or complaint every day, doesn't mean they aren't professional.

BOINC was designed to run multiple projects. Yes, many only want to do SETI, and that is their choice, but then you also have to realize that the project never, ever promised to be up and running 24/7, and have plenty of work to satisfy everyone's needs.

And, about the BETA testing stuff. If more people would go over to SETI Beta, more stuff could get tested before it came here. Server code changes come here simply because this project has the most users, and they can identify problems a lot sooner than if it was on any of the other projects, and, the head honcho behind BOINC is also at the SETI headquarters. A lot of other project administrator's probably don't want to "beta test" server code, so what other choice does Dave have?

Anyhow, off my soapbox. I'll happily go back to crunching many of the other projects, with this one on the side for when they get back up and running.

"If you don't understand why the project is unstable at the moment, or don't understand why there is frequent downtime then please ask. There are plenty of people around that will answer questions about what is going on at the moment."

OK, I don't understand and I am "asking?????" :-)

Having been a member for some time (1994) Yes, I'm 'ol school - BOINC Classic - and all that, I do have an appreciation for the dedication, determination, and professionalism of the SETI staff which is constantly on display.

Getting angry and posting "nastiness" accomplishes absolutely nothing! Having said all 'dat, I do hope the current difficulties can be resolved quickly.

Things seem to be on the mend. No chickens being counted, but credits are coming through - which should in turn mean downstream services can clean up and delete the result files that are taking up all the disk space.

Thanks for the work to get everything back up and running, and hope it stays that way.
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Stats site - http://www.teamocuk.co.uk - still alive and (just about) kicking.

"If you don't understand why the project is unstable at the moment, or don't understand why there is frequent downtime then please ask. There are plenty of people around that will answer questions about what is going on at the moment."

OK, I don't understand and I am "asking?????" :-)

Having been a member for some time (1994) Yes, I'm 'ol school - BOINC Classic - and all that, I do have an appreciation for the dedication, determination, and professionalism of the SETI staff which is constantly on display.

Getting angry and posting "nastiness" accomplishes absolutely nothing! Having said all 'dat, I do hope the current difficulties can be resolved quickly.

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Must have something to do with "PERPETUAL STUDENTS"
I've been here since 2002 & its the SOS

But that is rubbish anyway as I can do, otherwise I could not be able to teach. I do wish you could be a bit more positive. There is enough negative vibes around here at the moment without you adding to them.

____________Those of you who think you know everything are annoying those of us that actually do!

But that is rubbish anyway as I can do, otherwise I could not be able to teach. I do wish you could be a bit more positive. There is enough negative vibes around here at the moment without you adding to them.

Negative vibes here? At this positive place?

Nah, I tell you about real negative vibes. That's what you feel when you come driving in a NATO marked vehicle, outside a mosque, in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

That my friend is real negative vibes.

Compared to that, this place is the most positive this side of heaven.

____________I'm only running one computer. Using 2 cores of an old Q8200 CPU for CPU tasks, and 2 cores feeding a single Mid-range GPU, ATI HD7870.
Look at the RAC folks, and ask yourselves why it beats so many multi GPU monster computers :-)

Or being the family of that person in that NATO vehicle, knowing there's not a damn thing you can do should the worst happen.

No personal experience, but the UK just having marked our 300th death as a result of the conflict certainly adds some perspective.
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Stats site - http://www.teamocuk.co.uk - still alive and (just about) kicking.